Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma

Waking the Tiger offers a new and hopeful vision of trauma. It views the human animal as a unique being, endowed with an instinctual capacity. It asks and answers an intriguing question: Why are animals in the wild, though threatened routinely, rarely traumatized? By understanding the dynamics that make wild animals virtually immune to traumatic symptoms, the mystery of human trauma is revealed.

Seeds of Hope: Wisdom and Wonder from the World of Plants

In her wise and elegant new audiobook, Jane Goodall blends her experience in nature with her enthusiasm for botany to give listeners a deeper understanding of the world around us. Long before her work with chimpanzees, Goodall's passion for the natural world sprouted in the backyard of her childhood home in England, where she climbed her beech tree and made elderberry wine with her grandmother. The garden her family began then, she continues to enjoy today. Seeds of Hope takes us from England to Goodall's home-away-from-home in Africa.

Every Breath You Take: How to Breathe Your Way to a Mindful Life

Mindful breathing is direct, natural and easy to learn; it is simply using your breath as a focus or a tool for mindfulness. If you can breathe, you can be mindful, and once you master this you can access it at any point, wherever you are, day or night. Following on from the hugely successful I Met a Monk, Rose Elliot, renowned vegetarian chef and proponent of mindfulness, gently leads the listener on a journey that starts with the teachings of the Buddha on a moonlit evening.

Ikigai: The Japanese Secret to a Long and Happy Life

Random House presents the audiobook edition of Ikigai by Héctor García and Francesc Miralles, read by Noako Mori. Bring meaning and joy to your every day with the internationally best-selling guide to ikigai. The people of Japan believe that everyone has an ikigai - a reason for being; the thing that gets you out of bed each morning. And according to the residents of the Japanese island of Okinawa - the world's longest-living people - finding it is the key to a longer and more fulfilled life.

Braving the Wilderness: The Quest for True Belonging and the Courage to Stand Alone

'True belonging doesn't require us to change who we are. It requires us to be who we are.' Social scientist Brené Brown, PhD, LMSW has sparked a global conversation about the experiences that bring meaning to our lives - experiences of courage, vulnerability, love, belonging, shame and empathy. In Braving the Wilderness, Brown redefines what it means to truly belong in an age of increased polarisation.

If Women Rose Rooted: The Journey to Authenticity and Belonging

This is the second edition of a uniquely empowering, international word-of-mouth best seller about wild landscapes, female mythology, and the challenges facing modern women. It is a book for any woman who has ever lost her way and who sees a wasteland at the heart of modern existence and longs to live a more authentic, rooted life once again.

Out of the Wreckage: A New Politics for an Age of Crisis

A toxic ideology rules the world of extreme competition and individualism. It misrepresents human nature, destroying hope and common purpose. Only a positive vision can replace it, a new story that re-engages people in politics and lights a path to a better world. George Monbiot shows how new findings in psychology, neuroscience and evolutionary biology cast human nature in a radically different light: as the supreme altruists and cooperators.

Farmageddon: The True Cost of Cheap Meat

Farm animals have been disappearing from our fields as the production of food has become a global industry. We no longer know for certain what is entering the food chain and what we are eating - as the UK horsemeat scandal demonstrated. We are reaching a tipping point as the farming revolution threatens our countryside, health, and the quality of our food wherever we live in the world.

How Not to Die: Discover the foods scientifically proven to prevent and reverse disease

Why rely on drugs and surgery to cure you of life-threatening disease when the right decisions can prevent you from falling ill to begin with? How Not to Die gives effective, scientifically proven nutritional advice to prevent our biggest killers - heart disease, breast cancer, prostate cancer, high blood pressure, diabetes - and reveals the astounding health benefits that simple dietary choices can provide.

Why We Love Dogs, Eat Pigs, and Wear Cows: An Introduction to Carnism

Carnism is the belief system, or ideology, that allows us to selectively choose which animals become our meat, and it is sustained by complex psychological and social mechanisms. Like other "isms", carnism is most harmful when it is unrecognized and unacknowledged. Why We Love Dogs, Eat Pigs, and Wear Cows names and explains this phenomenon and offers it up for examination. Unlike the many books that explain why we shouldn't eat meat, Joy's book explains why we do eat meat.

The Things You Can See Only When You Slow Down: How to be Calm in a Busy World

'Is it the world that's busy, or my mind?' The world moves fast, but that doesn't mean we have to. In this timely guide to mindfulness, Haemin Sunim, a Buddhist monk born in Korea and educated in the United States, offers advice on everything from handling setbacks to dealing with rest and relationships.

The Inner Life of Animals: Surprising Observations of a Hidden World

Mother deer that grieve? Horses that feel shame? Squirrels that adopt their grandchildren? We humans tend to assume that we are the only living things able to experience feelings intensely and consciously. But have you ever wondered what's going on in an animal's head? From the leafy forest floor to the inside of a beehive, The Inner Life of Animals takes us from microscopic levels of observation to the big philosophical, ethical and scientific questions.

Publisher's Summary

Renowned scientist and best-selling author Jane Goodall delivers an eye-opening and empowering book that explores the social and personal significance of what we eat. In Harvest for Hope, Jane Goodall presents an empowering and far-reaching vision for social and environmental transformation through the way we produce and consume the foods we eat. In clear, well-organized chapters that include "The Organic Boom" and "Thinking Globally, Eating Locally", readers will discover the dangers behind many of today's foods, along with the extraordinary individual and worldwide benefits of eating locally grown, organic produce. For anyone who has ever wanted to know how they can take a stand for a more sustainable world, Harvest for Hope reveals the healthy choices that will support the greater good.

As consumers we need to be aware of how corporations affect our food supply. If we are to be advocates for our own health this is information we need to know and we need to teach it to our children. If knowledge empowers and if “every food purchase is a vote” this book should be required reading for all of us.

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Ashley

10/01/18

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"I absolutely love this book."

I found this book very informative and because of it I was able to go to a website where I found a local sustainable Farm and I became a CSA share crop holder and I will now receive locally grown organic sustainable fruits and vegetables every week. I also plan on volunteering at this local Farm that way I can be involved, learn and really know where my food comes from.

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Cat lady

01/05/17

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"Inspiring and important"

What an impairment read!! Jane Goodall is a ray of light! She sought out the truth, shares it in this book and ensures that the reader is left feeling hopeful with a section at the end of each chapter on "what you can do". Thank you Jane! I am so inspired :)

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kimberly hall

12/04/16

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"Very informative and easy to read"

What did you love best about Harvest for Hope?

An easy read that kept my attention. Very informative with lots of detail. My 10 year old also lived the book

What was one of the most memorable moments of Harvest for Hope?

I think I'll always remember the scene with her at a conference and the glass of water. I attend meetings all the time and paid no attention to how the glass of water would be wasted many times

Which scene was your favorite?

I thoroughly enjoyed many scenes I'm not sure I have a favorite.

Did you have an extreme reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?

I've learned a lot and I am making a conscious effort to pay attention to the details about where my family's food comes from. We've purchased a water filter and buy more organic or wild crafted food items

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L. Wallach

Virginia, USA

23/04/15

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"Not the best examination of our flawed food system"

Goodall may be a biologist by training, but her approach to this topic, as others have mentioned, is emotional, sentimental, and fear-mongering, rather than scientific. She states so many things in this book as facts without citing where she got the information from, and in fact some of these items are scientifically incorrect. They seem, rather, culled from vegetarian/animal rights activist propaganda without any further critical examination on Goodall's part. At least from what she states in the book, it sounds like she picks up much of her information from reading X book or Y article and then just accepts it as fact, despite the fact that there are different views on many of these issues.

Unfortunately the poor narration does even more to harm how this book comes across. The lilting, superior way it comes across (unlike Goodall's much less grating voice at the beginning and end of the book), makes me want to cringe every other sentence, especially with the phony laughs and the times when the voice conveys a smug, self-satisfied smile about one thing or another.

That being said, I think there are important truths in this book that many of us can agree on, and it has given me some additional motivation to get back to trying to eat more local and organic. I just wish the presentation of this book were better and the science behind it were better, because I think it will completely turn off a lot of people who are new to such material. Likewise it's also destined to put sometimes incorrect ideas in some heads who will use this book as a reference of *facts* and not realize that there is much of it that is actually just opinion that isn't backed up with solid facts. Unfortunately these people will continue to spread myths that, when debunked, will do more disservice to the overall cause because it then makes the idea of organics and local food seem to be based on fallacies.

So, if this area is something new to you, I would highly recommend a different book, one that is more balanced but often reaches similar conclusions, but in a much better researched way - a book I read 10+ years ago which got me to start thinking seriously about where I got my food - Michael Pollan's Excellent "The Omnivore's Dilemma."

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Jennifer

San Francisco, CA, United States

14/05/06

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"boring..."

This book uncovers nothing that anyone even remotely interested in the wholesomeness and safety of their food doesn't already know, and is written and narrated in a style that seems directed to the intellect of a third grader. I was thinking that as a biologist, Ms. Goodall would able to provide some balance between the health food store fear mongering and the glib assurances of the agribusiness PR flacks, but she chooses to talk down to her audience, and I believe even quotes some wacko publication like "Well-Being Journal" (I'd actually have to listen to the hour or so that I managed to tolerate to accurately cite what publication of dubious credibility it was) as a source. The narrator does the text justice. Perhaps this is why she hasn't been heard from since "The Birds".

5 of 11 people found this review helpful

Greg

(Austin)

14/10/09

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"Lucky Us"

the book is wandering and largely emotionally driven rather than scientifically, fact based it's only brought down further by the ridiculous narration. it would seem the narrator finds each and every word of each and every sentence to be a profound revelation which all of humanity should bow down and thank her for(not to mention the uncanny similarity her voice shares with the captain of star trek's voyager series.) I couldn't agree more with another reviewer's opinion posted here that it all sounds as though the listener is assumed to be a 3rd grader.
PASS.

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Marcus

austin, TX, USA

12/03/09

Overall

"The best Audiobook Ever"

This book changed my life. I did know some but not everything she preached. This was an amazing book!

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Ron

Bradenton Beach, FL, USA

13/04/06

Overall

"Loved the book"

A great listen. Explains in plain english all the bad things out there. Very well done.

0 of 2 people found this review helpful

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